In regard to vision issues, is there any reason why you can’t just get a big monitor with a relatively low resolution and change the DPI? I’ve found that to work reasonably well for some elderly relatives. But I guess that depends on how large the print has to be.

Web sites often specify things in pixels, is there a way of running an X client with replacing each pixel with 4 or 9 pixels? Maybe some sort of Zephyr option or something?

CRT monitors allowed us to set a low resolution on a large monitor, but that isn’t as easy on LCDs (they tend to make things fuzzy). Have you tried finding an LCD monitor that allows running the computer at a resolution that is exactly half the width and height of the display?

We do have a 24 inch wide-screen LCD that is pretty good for most sites. But some games just seem to be better set up for people with low vision — i.e., higher contrast, or just games where the skills involved are not primarily visual.

gcompris is just the kind of thing I was looking for. A few of the games are buggy/nonfunctional for me, but the other ones are very appropriate. In full-screen mode the text is perfectly legible for my daughter.